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New York Times, Tuesday, May 13, 2003

Author:
Todd McClary
Editor:
Will Shortz
63-Across : Send around the bend
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
1410/3/20003/27/20121
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
10304222
CircleScrabDebutFresh
11.637856%
Todd McClary

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {JQWX} This is puzzle # 3 for Mr. McClary. Tuesday freshness: 17%
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© 2003, The New York Times5/13/3 ( No. 19,544 )
Across
1
An article may be written on it : SPEC
5
Purse part, often : STRAP
10
Cake with a kick : BABA
14
Baccarat alternative : FARO
15
Brownish gray : TAUPE
16
Bass products : ALES
17
Yellowstone figure : PARKRANGER
19
___ out (barely gets) : EKES
20
"Yertle the Turtle" author : DRSEUSS
21
Rake with fire : STRAFE
23
"Quiet!" : SHH
24
Where cubs are raised : LAIR
26
Permit : LET
27
"I know the answer!" : AHA
30
Contract bridge tactics : REVERSEBIDS
33
Bother : FUSS
35
Like modern clocks and recordings : DIGITAL
36
Home on the range : TEPEE
38
Divine path, in Asian religions : TAO
39
Firm belief : DOGMA
43
Wash : CLEANSE
46
Heat to more than 212°, as water : BOIL
47
Where weapons are forbidden : NEUTRALZONE
51
Need for a keg : TAP
52
Takes too many tranqs, say : ODS
53
Peak SE of Olympus : OSSA
54
"La-la" lead-in : TRA
56
Color, as a hippie's shirt : TIEDYE
58
Breakaway country from Ethiopia : ERITREA
62
Other, in Oaxaca : OTRA
63
Send around the bend : DRIVECRAZY
66
Astronaut Armstrong : NEIL
67
Nonstudio film : INDIE
68
Plowing unit : ACRE
69
Swirl : EDDY
70
Achieves perfectly : NAILS
71
They're split for soup : PEAS
Down
1
Bay Area patrollers: Abbr. : SFPD
2
Carson predecessor : PAAR
3
Miscalculates : ERRS
4
Soda fountain choices : COKES
5
Hid : STASHED
6
Catches some rays : TANS
7
Toupee, slangily : RUG
8
Copy : APE
9
Keep going : PERSIST
10
1930's heavyweight champ Max : BAER
11
Acid-neutralizing compound : ALKALI
12
Complained : BEEFED
13
Selling points : ASSETS
18
German industrial valley : RUHR
22
"Don't ___ on me" : TREAD
24
Daewoo model : LEGANZA
25
Operatic passage : ARIOSO
27
Toward the rear : AFT
28
Tint : HUE
29
Egyptian viper : ASP
31
Blood pressure, body temperature, etc. : VITALS
32
Campy 1958 sci-fi film, with "The" : BLOB
34
Split-off group : SECT
37
Jetsons' lad : ELROY
40
Came down with : GOT
41
Unaccounted-for G.I. : MIA
42
Saint-Moritz sight : ALP
44
Entered gradually : EASEDIN
45
Main courses : ENTREES
47
Zero : NOTONE
48
Reworked, as text : EDITED
49
Log-on name : USERID
50
Rocker Clapton : ERIC
55
Fall into ___ (get caught) : ATRAP
57
Carson ___ of MTV : DALY
58
Malevolence : EVIL
59
Marathon : RACE
60
Pound of literature : EZRA
61
Yeoman's yeses : AYES
64
Genetic info carrier : RNA
65
Uganda's Amin : IDI

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later.

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